Venomous Eyelash pit viper (Bothriechis schlegelii), colorful snake species from Costa Rica, oropel
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Venomous Eyelash pit viper or Eyelash palm-pitviper (Bothriechis schlegelii) is one of the most colorful snakes in the world. This snake species lives in rainforests of Central and South America. It is one of the most common venomous snakes in the region, together with Terciopelo (Fer-de-lance or Hognosed pit viper). Bites from this snake are not very common and the venom is not very strong. There are several color morph and the most famous ones are yellow and Christmas tree morph. This video shows yellow morph (oropel), Christmas tree morph (bocaracá), grey morph and more colors. This snake footage was filmed in Costa Rica. Eyelash pit viper has some typical features and behavior which will be shown in the video.
Absolutely beautiful colorful vipers; especially the Yellow viper poised on that colorful flora and the Christmas tree viper. Living Zoology rocks!
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The Christmas tree morph is absolutely gorgeous!!! Incredible snakes!!!
They are! Thank you for watching!
All of the morphs are absolutely amazing!!!
We agree, this species is stunning!
I absolutely love eyelash vipers, they’re such gorgeous and interesting animals
They are awesome! We always love to work with them!
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With utter beauty
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In this tropical forest those vipers looking just stunning 😊
I just watched a Nat Geo clip just before watching this one and I have to say… yours is so much better! Seriously beautiful footage of an insanely gorgeous snake. WELL DONE!
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@@LivingZoology I sincerely mean that. I much prefer your footage over Nat Geo. 😎
These are without a doubt my favorite snakes.
These are awesome snakes!
The eye lash pit viper is a beautiful snake!!
That is true! And it is so variable in color!
Interesting to see a viper climbing like a boa. Super nice video!
Thanks a lot! Yes, these vipers are expert climbers!
Great video! Thanks so much for making it😊
You are so welcome! Great that you like this video 🙂
Wow! these vipers are so cute ❤️❤️❤️
Yes, they are!!! You will love them after watching this video! :)
Beautifully filmed. Love the color variations.
Many thanks!!! We worked hard to find those color morphs! 🙂One month in the rainforest!
@@LivingZoology Wow, that dedication really shows. Such beautiful videos.
Another great video LZ! Aside from the awesome colorations, I noticed that they have HUGE venom glands!
Thank you very much! 🙂You are right, it is well visible on adults! 🐍
Always great documentary, wonderful !!! Bravo!!
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Nature is such a beauty. It’s amazing The type of animals we’ve never seen exist
Yes, nature is so diverse and amazing! Always great to explore!
The beauty of these snakes never ceases to amaze me.
Eyelash pit viper is particularly beautiful, thank you for watching!
Wonderful species !!!
It is, so variable in color! :)
Christmas 🎄 tree 🌲 viper is an eye 👁️👀 lash pit viper who's skin is colored like a Christmas 🎄 tree! 10:01
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the most beautyfull ones!
This species is beautiful, we agree! 🙂
Stunning an beautiful snake
We think so too! Thank you for watching!
Wow eyelash pit viper
It is a beautiful snake! 🐍 Don’t miss the video!
Best camera
Thank you very much!
Gorgeous snakes ❤😊
They are! 🙂🐍
Beautiful work. Great post about these pretty little critters.
Thank you very much! :)
Strange but stunning creature! The color is beautiful, the and the eyelashes make them amazing to observe. Just beautiful, at a distance! It looks like they have a neck, then the large wedge of a head is perched on top 😮😮😮😮
The Morph is a breathtaking snake, your capture of this stunning snake is just lovely. The colors are amazing. So happy to meet one on film 🎥 I think I missed it but how long are they?
Thank you so much! These are one of the most colorful snakes, so cute! We love to work with them, they are not very fast and live in the beautiful rainforest. They usually grow to 60 - 80 cm.
Awesome like usual ,very colorful pit viper ! Moving on flowers it’s so beautiful and scary ✌️
Thank you very much!!! Why scary?
@@LivingZoology scary by the bite ! Not the snakes they are gorgeous ✌️
@@sebastienrobert5179 Ok, we understand! A bite from a venomous snake is always scary.
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They are amazing!!! :)
Beautiful filming, informative text. Thanks, well done!
Thank you very much for watching! :)
Such beautiful snakes - thanks for another wonderful video.
Thank you for your support!!! These snakes are absolutely amazing, it was a pleasure to film them.
Kudos again for a great video. Appreciate all of your efforts. As usual, the video came out with flying colors. Additionally, the protagonist itself displayed vibrant colours.
Fantastic job team😍
Stay safe! Take care!
Thank you so much! As you say, these snakes are super colorful and look great in the footage! We were very happy to find these color morphs, it took us about one month of searching! Take care and thank you so much.
I would liked to have known more about the venom, how bad is it? What's the affect in humans? Beautifully shot, and beautiful snake!
As most solenoglyph the venom is hemotoxic (toxic for blood) and cytotoxic (destroying the cells). If the venom is not as powerful as the snakes of the Bothrops complex we must be avoid bites because a bite of these species must be consider as a medical urgency.
Venom of this species is hemotoxic and cytotoxic, it is not as strong as in bushmasters or Terciopelo, but if we are correct there are cases of deaths after the bite. Eyelash pit viper is small so the amount of venom it has is usually not enough to kill an adult human, but it is important to prevent bites from happening, because you never know.
yellow one has mites i think
We often see mites on snakes!
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Please can we hope for Malabar pit vipr and wester ghats pit viper series hee... There are lot of pit viper in that area which are never expose to outside world ... So that we can know little about them ?
We hope to go to India next year, keep your fingers crossed...
Snakes look great on my Samsung big screen
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I love snakes
That is great! :)
The snake I use as a profile picture, is called jararaca (bothrops erythromelas), is of the same genus as the beautiful Fer de lance (Bothrops asper), it is a snake of the viperid family and of the crotalinae subfamily, it is one of the snakes that cause most snake accidents in my country, I found her while hiking in the woods.
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@@faunadacaatinga8757 How is it possible that you watched this video before the premiere? :)
Sincerely speaking i hate snake
When i came encountered with snakes i kill them instantly
Did snakes do something bad to you?
i love your dedication for filming snakes
Thank you so much! We love these animals!
I raised a baby Christmas Tree Color Phase Eyelash Viper in 2002. it was one of the arboreals that made the best use of alll the branches in the cage , getting into comically awkward positions, looking all knotted up ....but .... in fact, always ready to throw out a big punch, whenever I changed out the water bowl. Really cool snakes with real personalities ! GREAT EPISODE AS ALWAYS , L.Z. !!!!!!!
Thanks for watching! These are snakes are super cute and beautiful, it must have been nice to raise one.
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Pit vipers in general know how to survive and repopulate!❤😂🎉😅😊! 4:52
Snakes in general are great survivors 🙂
That's how intelligent 🧠🤓 pit vipers really are in general!❤😂🎉😅😊! 5:53
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I love how they say they can hunt without camouflage lmao. Have you ever looked for eyelash vipers??? Even the yellow phase blends in remarkably well in the forest. Plenty of yellow foliage..
Yes, we found those snakes in this video by ourselves or with the help of local guides :) So we know which color of these snakes is the easiest to find - yellow one! Some of them were very visible.
are y'all going to do a video on the Cotton Mouth Water Moccasin of the southern united states? I am looking forward to that video..i love em..best snake in my opinion.
If we get lucky to have a chance to go to the USA in the future, we will try to find Cottonmouths :)
Sublime footage. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏
I am brazilian
Greetings to Brazil!
In the late 2000s I worked on turtle projects in CentroAmerica. One of the prettier places I lived was in Caribbean Costa Rica. There was a park I lived in for 9 months, Cahuita National Park. The amount of oropel there was insane.
EDIT - They are a lot smaller than I expected, no more than 2 feet on average. The terciopelo was the one to watch out for.
We visited Cahuita twice and we know that it is absolutely famous for oropels. We saw 2 there :)
@@LivingZoology That is great!!I lived in the ranger station at Cahuita National Park 2008 turtle 🐢 nesting season
@@arturoherrera1386 That is awesome! It is a lovely park, so many animals around :)
Are we ABSOLUTELY certain that the different "schlegelii" aren't separate species? Are some hybrids? Think Gaboon Viper and the Rhino viper and their NATURALLY occurring hybrid ("Gabino")
A different color is not automatically a sign of a different species. Many viper species are very variable in color. The important piece of evidence is general morphology and especially genetics. One species was described - Blotched Palm-pitviper (Bothriechis superciliaris) according to genetics and morphology. Eyelash pit viper still remains one species with many color morphs and big range until some new evidence shows that it should be treated differently.
I love this video. We need more eyelash videos ❤
Thank you very much!
Beautiful but dangerous it's like a beautiful woman easy to betray you
It is not nice to snakes nor women to say that they betray you 😀😀
Spectacular footage of such gorgeous creatures
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Your videos are so calming an beautifull i had to follow
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One looks like peppered bacon! Yummm
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No talking no bullshit, only snake love it
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Beautiful snakes.
Yes they are! And so variable in color!
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B. Schlegelii is a most interesting snake species in that some of its morphs are so conspicuous. In view of the remarkable crypticity of many if not most slow-moving snake species, this reversal is most curious. Why has not the DNA for the bright yellow morphs been eliminated? What could be the advantage? Another question, which arises from the same phenomenon in several other vipers, is the supra-ocular scalar processes, occurring also in, e.g., the North American sidewinder rattlesnake. The frequency of occurrence of this anatomical characteristic among vipers strongly suggests some selective benefit, but what? Does it betray some unknown process of visual perception (detection) of eyes in snake predators or prey?
The yellow snakes are known to hide in and hunt from yellow flowers. So in those instances they are still cryptic. I have no idea how common that behavior is.
The yellow ones are sometimes seen on the colorful flowers. But they are more often found anywhere else, just on places where the other morphs are better camouflaged. These snakes hunt during the night so their bright color might not be such a disadvantage after the darkness. Nobody is sure why Eyelash pit vipers have the supraocular scales, one hypothesis says that with them they don't have such an easy recognizable silhouette, the other hypothesis says that it prevents eyes from being damaged when they move in a dense vegetation.
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@@ceratophrys That is brilliant! 👍❤️
How did you shoot this video
We look for snakes, work with them in their natural environment, film them and release them back to the wild.
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Ohh very danger 😲
Not very danger if you give the snake enough space 😉
@@LivingZoology you are talking about living space , more dangerous beings than snakes are humans , people don't leave a living space for animals, you're right
You guys are always putting out amazing work!!!
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I read Costa Rica is the 3rd Largest Banana exporter on the planet,one out of every 10 originate from there.
Could anyone imagine rummaging through a box of Bananas and out came a Yellow Eyelash Pit Viper.lol...
I did not realize they were so small,they could hide well and actually get shipped to other nations in with bananas quite often.
Beautiful species, and I find every color of them attractive.
Venom glands are HUGE , bet they pack a dose.
Also read they are docile unless provoked.
I never seen one realtime.. Envious.
@@aldenunion We never heard about an Eyelash pit viper being shipped with bananas, but theoretically it can happen! They are not very big, the young ones are tiny!
@@LivingZoology Only repeating what I read, never seen myself.
Maybe someone embellished the truth a bit? Known to happen online.
I have heard of arachnids, so figured sure adds up..
In same article they said local myth (that is anatomically impossible), that locals claimed they would actually "wink" before striking.lol....
Sure are pretty though..
Wow they keep on coming......hope the one on the right is featured......oh and the one on the left as well!!!!
Both snakes are featured of course! :)
Fantastic, some morphs are clearly more mimetic than others. It seems that the yellow ones lack of certain pigments, no? I have a question we see that these snakes are fantastic climbers (the movement and synchronisation of the body movements and the prehensile tail is fantastic) but do they have the heart situated closer to the head as in certain other climbers (like some colubrids climbers)?
Thank you for watching! We think that the yellow morph does lack some pigments, yes. In terms of the heart position we are not aware of anything special in this species. We guess that it would need to be common among other arboreal vipers also if it is present in this species.
One of the most fascinating and one of my favorite species of viper in the world
Yes, this species is simply amazing! 🐍Thanks for watching!
All of your videos are remarkable. Thanks for the work you do.
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Beautiful reptiles.
They are stunning! Amazing snakes to film, thank you!
Awesome snake! I also wanted to mention you've called the African Bush Vipers (Aetheris and I believe another) pit vipers when they're true vipers, in an older video. Idk if anyone has mentioned it, so I figured I'd point that out. It's also very interesting the convergent evolution between small new world arboreal vipers and old world bush vipers! Similar to Green Tree Pythons and Emerald Tree Boas!
Yes, these snakes are amazing! We are not aware of the fact that we called bush viper from the genus Atheris pit vipers, send us a proof ;) Nobody mentioned anything like that.